Senior Developer Infrastructure Engineer – Build Reliable CI

Coinbase, Inc.; Pierre (SD); Remote; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Medical insurance

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring Senior Software Engineers for its Developer Infrastructure group, building core platform services used across Coinbase engineering. You’ll own end-to-end services, improve CI/CD, deployment, and test infrastructure, and mentor engineers.

The role emphasizes reliability, security, observability, and scalable systems experience. This remote-first team collaborates across Coinbase and participates in quarterly in-person surges for alignment and knowledge sharing.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production software with distributed systems fundamentals.
• Ownership from design through production for backend/platform systems.
• Strong operational instincts focusing on reliability, security, and observability.
• Clear communication and the ability to drive projects independently while collaborating across teams.
• Customer-focused mindset with impact on other engineers.
• Experience in developer infrastructure or platform domains such as CI/CD, build systems, release tooling, test infrastructure, or developer productivity.
• Experience operating at scale with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and containers.
• Depth in areas such as build systems, remote execution, progressive delivery, or test optimization.
• Experience with observability and performance tooling such as Datadog.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core developer infrastructure services across CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test infrastructure.
• Improve key engineering productivity metrics, including build and CI time, deploy speed and safety, and test feedback quality.
• Own services end to end, including architecture, observability, SLOs, and on-call operations.
• Partner with engineering teams across Coinbase to understand pain points and turn them into platform improvements.
• Lead technical design for cross-cutting projects and drive them through production.
• Mentor engineers and help shape the technical direction of the platform.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

Backend systems

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Containers

Observability

Security

Communication

Datadog

AI responsibly

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Containers

Datadog

Job description

Coinbase is hiring Senior Software Engineers for its Developer Infrastructure group, building core platform services used across Coinbase engineering. You’ll own end-to-end services, improve CI/CD, deployment, and test infrastructure, and mentor engineers.

The role emphasizes reliability, security, observability, and scalable systems experience. This remote-first team collaborates across Coinbase and participates in quarterly in-person surges for alignment and knowledge sharing.